At the weekend, her only son, John Hancock, 36, went public, upbraiding his mother for failing to provide security for her family.
If this were so, she was to offer it first for purchase to John Hancock.
His grandson, John Hancock, came to live with him, and went to school with us.
But if Fendrick could get at him some way he might put down his John Hancock.
He rushed back to the register and wrote "Seattle" as big as a John Hancock.
In 1777 he succeeded John Hancock as president of the continental congress.
This letter was a great surprise to John Hancock and the other leaders of Congress.
These, upon the demolition of that church, in 1774, were the gift of John Hancock.
In 1773 John Hancock was elected treasurer of Harvard college.
John Hancock's signature is noted for its big, bold letters.
colloquial for "signature," 1903 (sometimes, through some unexplainable error, John Henry), from the Boston merchant and rebel (1736-1793), signer of the U.S. Declaration of Independence. The extended sense is from his signing that dangerous document first or most flamboyantly.
John Hancock, president of Congress, was the first to sign the Declaration of Independence, writing his name in large, plain letters, and saying: "There; John Bull can read my name without spectacles. Now let him double the price on my head, for this is my defiance." [Hélène Adeline Guerber, "The Story of the Thirteen Colonies," New York, 1898]The family name is attested from 1276 in Yorkshire, a diminutive (see cock) of Hann, a very common given name in 13c. Yorkshire as a pet form of Henry or John.
A signature: “Please help us out and put your John Hancock on our petition.” The expression refers to the bold signature that John Hancock wrote on the Declaration of Independence.
noun phrase
One's signature
[1903+; fr the fact that John Hancock of Massachusetts was the first to sign the Declaration of Independence in 1776; John Henry, possibly by confusion with Patrick Henry, because of the prominence of John Henry as a folklore hero, and by near-rhyming resemblance]
